I'm a little late on this, but I read on Meghan Sheffield's blog about Tidal Mass going on in Kingston a little while back, and it got me thinking (not for the first time) about the potential for Kingston to sustain a decent alt-weekly. It seems that now would be the right time to start thinking about it anyway: the new entertainment centre should be done by the new year, Queen's looks like it will be expanding over the next decade, the Artel is now in its second year, this Apple Crisp music series seems to be pretty cool, King-Can and reelOUT film fests are still going strong and I know music venues have been closing almost annually, but there seems to be a really vibrant core of young, creative people living in the city these days.
But it's basically hopeless if Kingston can't support it on its own, because it's too close to major centres and not close enough to any other middle players. See, 'cause I know Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo share an alt-weekly called the Tri-City something, and that might be the problem with one working in Kingston: there's nobody to share it with. And I do worry a little about what an alt-weekly might do to the Journal's music coverage.
Maybe I'm being totally naive.
But if anyone is in the mood to make a super risky investment in me and any friends I can arm-twist into this potentially hopeless endeavour, you know how to find me.
(Why am I writing about this? Didn't I make a pact to not write about non-SA issues a while back?)
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